Answer: ($8.96 / 7) * 5 or $6.40
Step-by-step explanation: You need to find the price for one watermelon then multiply it by 5 to find the price of 5.
Depending on what you're supposed to do, the three could either mean to distribute it into the equation, giving you
either
(3*2015) or (3*20)*(3*15) or (3*20) +/- (3*15)
Or an example of factoring where they took 3 out of 60 and 45.
There are no instruction on what to do in this question.
Subtract 9x from 23x yields 14x. This was done by subtracting algebraically the variables.
